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Effective Communication of Pathology Results to Requesting Practitioners and Consumers

Enhancing the understanding and readability of cancer reports

Page last updated: 14 May 2013

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Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Executive Summary
Background
- Motivation for the Study
- Why patients need to be informed
- Limitations of Current Pathology Reports
Study Design Overview
- Aim
- Methodology
- Ethical Approval
- Advisory Group
Literature Review
- Aim of the Literature Review
- Resources Used
- Relevant Literature Identified
- Outcomes of the Literature Review: Effective Communication of Health Information
- Initial Design Principles
Eye Tracking Experiment
- The Test
- Recruitment
- Experiment Questions
- Results from the pictorial prototype
- Results from the Control Report (Current Pathology Report)
- Derived Design Guidelines
Consultations with Stakeholders
- Method
- Feedback from Stakeholders
Patient and Carer Focus Groups
- Recruitment
- Focus Group Structure
- Focus Group Questions
- Feedback from Patient Focus Groups
Refinement of the Prototype
Mid-Project Review
Healthcare Professionals’ Focus Group/Dinner Workshop
- Recruitment
- Focus Group Structure
- Focus Group Questions
- Feedback from Healthcare Professionals
Trial of the Prototype (Pathology Pro Forma)
- Recruitment
- The Trial
- General Practice Questionnaire
- Patients Questionnaire
- Results
- Follow-up patients’ interviews
  - Demographics
  - Patients’ Perceptions of the Prototype Pro forma
Final Medical Practitioner Focus Group
Final Design Guidelines
- Guideline overview
- Layout
- Text style
- Wording
- Colour
- Graphs
- Pictures
- Individualize
- Information-processing style
Information Technology Requirements for the Prototype
- Installation location
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Samples of the report that were used in the eye tracking experiment
References
Effective Communication of Pathology Results to Requesting Practitioners and Consumers Dianella Community Health Inc Final Report – June 2012
- Stage 1A: Establishment of partnerships
- Stage 1B: Development of the pathology reporting template
- GP Recruitment Report (Dianella Community Health) – June 2012
- QUPP – Dinner Workshop – Wednesday 29th February 2012
- Pre-Test of QUPP Pathology Proforma – March – May 2012
- Risk Management
Enhancing the understanding and readability of cancer reports
- Introduction
- Search criteria/methodology
- Results
- Summary
- References
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